S6 Exam Questions

Ahmed Hasib Ittihad

M Ahsan Al Mahir

February 22, 2021

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1 Geometry

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Problem 1.1. Find the area of rhombus ABCD given that the radii of the circles circumscribed around triangles
ABD and ACD are 12.5 and 25, respectively.

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Problem 1.2. In quadrilateral ABCD, ∠B is a right angle, diagonal AC is perpendicular to CD, AB =
18, BC = 21, and CD = 14. Find the perimeter of ABCD.

Problem 1.3. In right triangle ABC with right angle C , CA = 30 and CB = 16. Its legs CA and CB are
extended beyond A and B . Points O1 and O2 lie in the exterior of the triangle and are the centers of two
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circles with equal radii. The circle with center O1 is tangent to the hypotenuse and to the extension of leg
CA, the circle with center O2 is tangent to the hypotenuse and to the extension of leg CB , and the circles
are externally tangent to each other. The length of the radius of either circle can be expressed as p/q , where
p and q are relatively prime positive integers. Find p + q .
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Problem 1.4. Triangle ABC has AC = 450 and BC = 300. Points K and L are located on AC and AB
respectively so that AK = CK , and CL is the angle bisector of angle C . Let P be the point of intersection
of BK and CL, and let M be the point on line BK for which K is the midpoint of P M . If AM = 180, find
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Problem 1.5. In parallelogram ABCD, point M is on AB so that AM 17

AB = 1000 and point N is on AD so that
AN 17 AC
AD = 2009 . Let P be the point of intersection of AC and M N . Find AP .
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2 Combinatorics
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Problem 2.1. Let set A be a 90-element subset of {1, 2, 3, . . . , 100} and let S be the sum of the elements of
A. Find the number of possible values of S .

Problem 2.2. Let S = {20 , 21 , 22 , . . . , 210 }. Consider all possible positive differences of pairs of elements of S .
Let N be the sum of all of these differences. Find the remainder when N is divided by 1000.
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Problem 2.3. The workers in a factory produce widgets and whoosits. For each product, production time is
constant and identical for all workers, but not necessarily equal for the two products. In one hour, 100 workers
can produce 300 widgets and 200 whoosits. In two hours, 60 workers can produce 240 widgets and 300 whoosits.
In three hours, 50 workers can produce 150 widgets and m whoosits. Find m.

Problem 2.4. Define a good word as a sequence of letters that consists only of the letters A, B and C −
some of these letters may not appear in the sequence − and in which A is never immediately followed by B,
B is never immediately followed by C and C is never immediately followed by A. How many seven-letter good
words are there?

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Problem 2.5. The members of a distinguished committee were choosing a president, and each member gave
one vote to one of the 27 candidates. For each candidate, the exact percentage of votes the candidate got was
smaller by at least 1 than the number of votes for that candidate. What is the smallest possible number of
members of the committee?

3 Number Theory

Problem 3.1. Find the least positive integer such that when its leftmost digit is deleted, the resulting integer
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is 29 of the original integer.

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Problem 3.2. Let S be the set of real numbers that can be represented as repeating decimals of the form 0.abc
where a, b, c are distinct digits. Find the sum of the elements of S .

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Problem 3.3. How many positive integers N less than 1000 are there such that the equation x⌊x⌋ = N has a

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solution for x? (The notation ⌊x⌋ denotes the greatest integer that is less than or equal to x.)

Problem 3.4. Let m be the number of solutions in positive integers to the equation 4x + 3y + 2z = 2009, and
let n be the number of solutions in positive integers to the equation 4x + 3y + 2z = 2000. Find the remainder
when m − n is divided by 1000.

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Problem 3.5. Given that a sequence satisfies x0 = 0 and |xk | = |xk−1 + 3| for all integers k ≥ 1, find the
minimum possible value of |x1 + x2 + · · · + x2006 |.
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4 Algebra
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Problem 4.1. The complex number z is equal to 9 + bi, where b is a positive real number and i2 = −1. Given
that the imaginary parts of z 2 and z 3 are equal, find b.
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Problem 4.2. The sequence (an ) satisfies a1 = 1 and 5(an+1 −an ) − 1 = for n ≥ 1. Let k be the least
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integer greater than 1 for which ak is an integer. Find k .

Problem 4.3. Let f (x) be a polynomial with real coefficients such that f (0) = 1, f (2) + f (3) = 125, and for
all x, f (x)f (2x2 ) = f (2x3 + x). Find f (5).
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Problem 4.4. There is a complex number z with imaginary part 164 and a positive integer n such that
z
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= 4i.
z+n
Find n.

Problem 4.5. Given that x, y , and z are real numbers that satisfy:

√ √
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x= y2 − + z2 −
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√ √
1 1
y= z2 −
x2 − +
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√ √
1 1
z= x −
2 + y2 −
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and that x + y + z = √
n
, where m and n are positive integers and n is not divisible by the square of any
prime, find m + n.